[DiGiTaLFX]

Hey, apologies if this is in the incorrect place, I wasn't sure if it should go here or the feature requests.

Just thought I'd share a nice little tweak for use on Windows 8/8.1 to make the icon look a bit nicer on the start screen. By placing the following code into a file called Kodi.VisualElementsManifest.xml (which needs to live alongside Kodi.exe), the tile colour will match the new logo's colour scheme.

Code:

<Application xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <VisualElements
        BackgroundColor="#2a9bc8"
        ShowNameOnSquare150x150Logo="on"
        ForegroundText="light"/>
</Application>

To refresh the tile on your start screen after changing this file, run the command below in PowerShell:

Code:

(ls "$env:AppData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Kodi\Kodi.lnk").lastwritetime = get-date

[Bloodflame]

Great tip, thanks! And welcome to the community!

[Martijn]

hmm interesting.
Perhaps we could include this by default. Sadly or luckily depending on how you view Windows 8 i can't test this out.
Care to share a screenshot from before and after?
Would this also work on Windows 10?

[Bloodflame]

Would this also work on Windows 10?

I believe it would. It sounds like this is Microsoft's standard way to display tiles on the Start screen, so I doubt they'd change it much (other than more customization, perhaps).

Edit: Before and After.

@DiGiTaLFX: Is this also supposed to change the icon? The only difference I see is the background, and yes, I did run the Powershell command. Maybe I need to log out and back in? Is there some other way to change the icon in the tile?

I don't use the Start screen (obviously, as my screenshots would suggest), but I think a proper tile would be awesome.

Edit 2: After looking into it a bit further, a custom tile can be made with OblyTile

[DiGiTaLFX]

Hi

No it's not meant to change the icon, purely the background colour. I thought fully custom tiles were only available to Windows Store apps, but I may be wrong there.

Those screenshots illustrate what it does, however I did this for the new Kodi icon, as unlike the old XBMC icon that was given the grey background in the before pic, the Kodi icon was given a more yucky blue/green colour.

[jjd-uk]

Looks like the icon can be changed, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/...93983.aspx

[DiGiTaLFX]

Here's a before and after with the Kodi Logo:

[zeppy]

I just tested this solution on a Windows 10 Technical Preview and it works as expected both on the start screen and the start menu; as already stated, Microsoft is probably using a consistent way of displaying tiles.

On a side note, though, I had the following error during the installation of Kodi RC3:

It may be related to the fact that I'm running Windows 10 in a virtual machine, I haven't had time to investigate yet. Needless to say I haven't tested Kodi at all on that machine, either.

[Martijn]

Looks like the icon can be changed, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/...93983.aspx

sweet
we should certainly add this